AXG - Antipodes Gold [formerly GEL - Glass Earth]

[elZorro]

Waikaia Gold Ltd must be starting up their operation in Southland by now. They are digging down 15 metres to an untouched gold layer, held in a 220 metre wide strip to the side of the current Waikaia River bed. I covered this operation without any real detail in post 830.

Southland District Council now has this very detailed report on how the mine site will work. It's using gear very similar to that used by GEL at Drybread, but on a bigger scale. Their proposed output from one big pontoon trommel is only twice that of GEL's target, 15,000oz a year, 106,000oz total.